Daniel Webster
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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the United States Congress and served as the United States Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore.
He was also a respected advocate, particularly during the time of the Marshall Court.
He was a member of the National Republican Party, the National Republican Party, and the Whig Party throughout his lifetime. After beginning a legal apprenticeship in New Hampshire in 1782, Webster established a fruitful law practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
He rose from 1812 as a leading participant in the Federalist Party and won the presidency of Representatives, where he served as a leader of the Federalist Party.
After two terms and relocating to Boston, Massachusetts, Webster left the office.
He became a leading lawyer in the United States' Supreme Court, winning cases such as Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, McCulloch vs. Maryland, and Gibbons vs. Ogden.
Early life
Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, on January 18, 1782, at a location within the present-day city of Franklin. He was the son of Abigail (née Eastman) and Ebenezer Webster, a farmer and local official who served in the French and Indian War as well as the American Revolutionary War. Around 1636, Ebenezer's ancestor, Thomas Webster, was born in England. Ebenezer had three children from a previous marriage that survived to adulthood, as well as five children from his marriage to Abigail; Webster was the second-youngest of the eight siblings. He was particularly close to his older brother, Ezekiel, who was born in 1780. As a youth, he helped with the family's farm but was often in poor health. He read Alexander Pope and Isaac Watts' books with the support of his parents and tutors.
He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1796. Webster was admitted to Dartmouth College in 1797 after researching the classics and other subjects under a clergyman. He was a student newspaper editor at Dartmouth and became a popular public speaker. In his address, he was named Fourth of July orator in Hanover, the college town, in 1800, and it reveals the political principles that influenced the development of which he became famous. Webster, like his father and many other New England farmers, was firmly committed to the Federalist Party and favored a strong central government. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1801 and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
Thomas W. Thompson, a lawyer from Dartmouth, apprenticed under Salisbury prosecutor Thomas W. Thompson after graduating from Dartmouth. Despite being unconcerned about studying the law, he believes that becoming a lawyer would enable him to "live comfortably" and avoid the onset of poverty that had afflicted his father. Webster resigned from the law office to serve as a schoolteacher at Fryeburg Academy in Maine in order to assist his brother Ezekiel's study at Dartmouth University. He started working in Boston under the legendary attorney Christopher Gore in 1804. Gore's clerk, who was active in international, national, and state politics, became interested in several legislative and political fields and met numerous New England politicians. He grew to love Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 1805.
Personal life, family, and religious convictions are all important.
Grace Fletcher, a schoolteacher and the daughter of a New Hampshire clergyman, was married in 1808. Daniel and Grace had five children between 1810 and 1822: Grace, Daniel "Fletcher," Julia, Edward, and Charles. Grace and Charles died before reaching adulthood. Grace Webster's mother died in January 1828 as a result of a cancerous tumor, and Webster suffered another loss when his brother, Ezekiel, died in April 1829. Caroline LeRoy, the 32-year-old daughter of a New York merchant, was married in December 1829 by Webster. They were married before Webster's death, and they lived until 1882. She and Webster had two children together, as well as another daughter named Grace and a son named Noah Webster. Webster was often the subject of rumors regarding his suspected promiscuity in Washington; many suspected that Sarah Goodridge, who had a close friendship, was his mistress.
When Webster and his family immigrated to Boston in 1816, they lived in Portsmouth until 1816. In 1831, Webster purchased a 150-acre farm in Marshfield, Massachusetts, now known as the Thomas–Webster estate. Webster spent a substantial chunk of his money making several improvements to his home, but he made it his primary residence in 1837. In Franklin, New Hampshire, Webster owned his father's house, The Elms, since 1829. Fletcher's older brother, who married Joseph Story of Joseph Story, established a lucrative law firm, and was the only one of his siblings to live out of his father. When serving as a colonel in the Union army, Fletcher died at the 1862 Second Battle of Bull Run. Edward Webster's younger brother died of typhoid fever in January 1848 while serving in the Mexican-American War. Julia, Webster's daughter, married Samuel Appleton Appleton but died of tuberculosis in April 1848.
As to his faith, differing viewpoints have been expressed. Unitarian Universalist Church in America, which cites Unitarianism in America from 1902, claims him as their own. Daniel Webster's Life and Character, an 1856 biography, names him as an orthodox Trinitarian, baptized and raised in an Orthodox Congregational Church, and who died a member of the Episcopal Church. Though Remini attended other churches occasionally, he remained closely associated with the Congregational church throughout his life. "I believe in the complete inability of any human being to work out his own Salvation without the constant support of all grace." ... Although I have a great deal of respect for certain other forms of worship, I think the Congregational style, on the whole, is preferable to any other."